Shadow Dancing

Reed player Azar Lawrence has a wide-ranging discography, from his stints as sideman for McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis to helming his own spiritual jazz sides, like 1974’s Bridge Into The New Age. But by the time of 1976’s People Moving, Azar was roving further, getting hip to funk and disco. It would be almost another ten years before he cut another solo album, but Shadow Dancing finds him knee deep in boogie rhythms with velvety blowing atop it. As its title suggests, most of the album is aimed towards the dancefloor, but “One More Time” and “Singapore Nights” are slow burners.